Ooo! That's cool. McNally is the best bookstore ever.Jan! A friend of mine from another message board works at the bookstore he's coming to!
What a small world!
Things that I love
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One Duck to rule them all.
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It needs to be about 20% cooler.
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It needs to be about 20% cooler.
I love learning about this sort of research:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... n-on-books
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... n-on-books
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/nov/17 ... tinct-mathIn the case of reading, very concretely, as I explain in the book, we now have plenty of evidence that the whole-language approach has nothing to do with how our visual system recognizes written words – our brain never relies on the overall contours of words, rather it decomposes all of its letters and graphemes in parallel, subliminally and at a high speed, thus giving us an illusion of whole-word reading. Experiments even suggest that the whole-language method may orient learning towards the wrong brain region, symmetrical to the visual word form area in the right hemisphere! We need to inform our teaching with the best brain science – and we also need to develop evidence-based education research, using classroom experiments to verify that our deductions about teaching methods actually work in practice.
People do fairly well on these tests, which summons up a weird feeling in them: They know they are right, but they don’t know how they got the answer. Even in toddlers who cannot yet count, these studies reveal, the brain automatically processes numbers. From infancy to old age, mathematical intuition consistently follows two rules. One is that people score better when the numbers are small than when they are large. The other is that people score better when the ratio of the bigger number to the smaller one is greater. In other words, people are more likely to correctly tell 2 from 4 than they are to tell 6 from 8, even though both pairs of numbers differ by two. As we get older, our intuition becomes more precise. Other experiments have shown that a six-month-old baby can reliably distinguish between numbers that differ by as little as a factor of two (like 4 and . By nine months the ratio has dropped to 1.5 (8 and 12, for example). And by adulthood the ratio is just 10 to 15 percent. The fact that the same two rules always hold true suggests that we use the same mental algorithm throughout our lives.
So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
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Cinnamon rolls. And dinner rolls that have been hollowed and stuffed with mashed potatoes and gravy.
I do not love anything else about Thanksgiving or its food but this is enough. Wait, no, I also love having the day off and I love that I've been working just long enough to love having the day off.
I do not love anything else about Thanksgiving or its food but this is enough. Wait, no, I also love having the day off and I love that I've been working just long enough to love having the day off.
Se paciente y duro; algún día este dolor te será útil.
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I love that I finally found the Starbucks cup I wanted in a store, so I didn't have to pay at min $30 for it online.
I love how Thanksgiving smells!
I love finally having something to take for my heartburn (words can not describe how much I love this)!
I love my boyfriend.
I love making/eating snowball cookies.
I love how Thanksgiving smells!
I love finally having something to take for my heartburn (words can not describe how much I love this)!
I love my boyfriend.
I love making/eating snowball cookies.
Member since March 16th, 2004.
And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.
And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.
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The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series (or what I've read so far). One of my favorite pages in the second book, after Greg's mom punishes him for lying and tells him he better not do it again:
I also love that these good/great books keep crossing my path now when I was having such a hard time getting excited about books for months.
I also love that these good/great books keep crossing my path now when I was having such a hard time getting excited about books for months.
Se paciente y duro; algún día este dolor te será útil.
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Friends. Relatives when they do not live with me to yell at me.
Funny books
That moment when pain begins to fade
Bones
That chick from Bones because she's so pretty and she looks like Kaoru if he were a white woman
Bugs
Bringing bugs in the house or other places. I bought a praying mantis into the library and it flew off somewhere.
It was funny. I had to catch it and put it back outside
moths
bringing these tiny moths in, though my neighbor keeps saying, don't bring those in, it's their time to die. But they can at least die warm
being weird
English spelling of certain words
Being clean
Victoria's Secret Love spell scent
Hot nice baths. Books.
really good books.
Funny books
That moment when pain begins to fade
Bones
That chick from Bones because she's so pretty and she looks like Kaoru if he were a white woman
Bugs
Bringing bugs in the house or other places. I bought a praying mantis into the library and it flew off somewhere.
It was funny. I had to catch it and put it back outside
moths
bringing these tiny moths in, though my neighbor keeps saying, don't bring those in, it's their time to die. But they can at least die warm
being weird
English spelling of certain words
Being clean
Victoria's Secret Love spell scent
Hot nice baths. Books.
really good books.
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THIS.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/extra/video/p005blrk
I think this is visible outside the UK. And I love it so much. Everyone needs to watch it. I'm looking especially at YOU, Jan.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/extra/video/p005blrk
I think this is visible outside the UK. And I love it so much. Everyone needs to watch it. I'm looking especially at YOU, Jan.
"Only for today, I will devote 10 minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul." -- Pope John XXIII
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I love - when you've got something on your mind, a word, a place, a concept, idea, whatever - and then, later on in some unrelated way, that same thing (or a different thing with the same name or the same thing in a different context, etc) is brought up by someone/something totally unrelated to it and completely unaware that it's lurking around in the corners of your mind.
There's a word for that, right?
There's a word for that, right?
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God, I don't know but I hope there is cause that happens to me ALL THE TIME. When I was reading First Meeting the other day and they were talking about communists and Poland that was the exect thing we were studying in World Geography!
"I'm drowning in FOOTWEAR!"
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I don't know what to type into Google to search for it!
"Weird coincidences of related happenstances..?"
I was playing Assassin's Creed II and was in the Apennine Mountains in Italy, and that day on Mythbusters they were testing the myth that NASA faked the moon landings, and they did some test where they shot a high powered laser at reflective objects NASA placed on the moon in the Montes Apenninus, a lunar mountain range, and I thought, "WHAT THE HELL IS THE WORD FOR THIS...!"
"Weird coincidences of related happenstances..?"
I was playing Assassin's Creed II and was in the Apennine Mountains in Italy, and that day on Mythbusters they were testing the myth that NASA faked the moon landings, and they did some test where they shot a high powered laser at reflective objects NASA placed on the moon in the Montes Apenninus, a lunar mountain range, and I thought, "WHAT THE HELL IS THE WORD FOR THIS...!"
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AND JUST THIS VERY SECOND, as I was typing that last post out, Family Guy was playing in the other room, the episode where Peter finds a Native American skull on his property while digging a pool.. anyways, somehow Carrot Top gets a hold of the skull and Peter needs it back. He escaped Carrot Top's dungeon with a saw with a pair of glasses on it, which Carrot Top calls his "See-Saw" which Peter laughs uncontrollably at - ANYWAYS - for the past two days that scene was in my mind, right? I just kept imagining Peter laughing and laughing and even sarcastically giving Carrot Top the skull back and then taking it back... All through work, right? Then, in the other room as I'm describing these weird coincidences, this episode is playing - but I don't know it because I can't see and my headphones are too loud to hear. Then just as the current song (dc Talk, "Consume Me") finishes, all I hear is "that's my See-Saw". Coincidence? I don't think so.
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Hahahaha I would not have gone that far, cause if Peter were real , I would be the last person he would call his "girl". But that's hilarious.
I love acting out scenes in books. That's how desperately I want to be an film actress. When I'm famous and everyone is talking about how talented that Miranda Lovett girl is, you can be like" It's Peterlover!"
I love acting out scenes in books. That's how desperately I want to be an film actress. When I'm famous and everyone is talking about how talented that Miranda Lovett girl is, you can be like" It's Peterlover!"
"I'm drowning in FOOTWEAR!"
-Spike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 7
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*laughs*Yeah, just ignore my stupid comments.
I love to be able to brag. As arrogant as that may sound....
So do I. I suppose that's where the "Smells in My Kitchen" thread came from originally. It's something I feel I can be legitimately proud of.
"Only for today, I will devote 10 minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul." -- Pope John XXIII
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Seconded (somewhat). I've been trying to remember what Alea's username was before GD, but it just slipped out of my mind.Holy crap I've already forgotten about this.My username used to be Peters_Girl and I'm almost positive I took every opportunity to declare how much I love Peter, even if it was a bit obvious. If that's stupidity, I'm right there with you.
Me too!I love making people laugh. Just to see someone genuinely happy for just a second makes me happy.
Gives me a warm feeling.
EDIT: 777th post =)
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Hmm. 5 years of P_G and only 1.5 of G D, yet the first isn't remembered? I see how it is! You all ignored me the first 5 years I've been here!Holy crap I've already forgotten about this.My username used to be Peters_Girl and I'm almost positive I took every opportunity to declare how much I love Peter, even if it was a bit obvious. If that's stupidity, I'm right there with you.
No, really, I am entirely relieved by that for reasons I can't articulate.
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